Summer Activities
Students should read the list with their parents/careers, and select two activities they would like to do. Forms will be available in school and online for them to indicate their choices and return to school. Before choices are finalised, parents/careers will be asked to sign to confirm their child’s choices.
Activity | Description | Member of staff | Cost |
Outdoor Adventure (OUT) | Take yourself out of your comfort zone for a week, discover new personal qualities, and learn new skills. You will be able to take part in a number of activities from canoeing to wild camping on Dartmoor. Learn rock climbing and work as a team, and enjoy the great outdoor environment. | Mr. Clemens | £140 |
WWI Battlefields and Paris (WBP) | On Monday we travel to London. After staying overnight in London, we travel on Day 2 to northern France to visit the World War I battlefields. On Day 3 we cross into Belgium. Thursday sees us make the short journey to Paris where we will visit Disneyland Paris park, staying until late to see the parade and the fireworks. Our final day, Friday, sees us visit central Paris and tour the main sights. | Mrs. Milson | £425 |
Crafty Foxes (CRF) | Four days of product design centred around textiles. Making lovely objects using recycled and made materials. Bags, cushions and decorations...Learn skills and leave with modern and unusual textiles. | Mrs. Goode | £30 |
Potty about Potter (POT) | Visit Warner Bros Studio, shop stop to buy picnic, stay overnight in an approved Youth Hostel in Streatley-on-Thames, guided tour of Oxford to see the film locations, picnic lunch outside Oxford’s Christchurch, boating on the River Cherwell through the University Parks, before heading back to Exeter. | Miss Drake | £150 |
1.Which activity will you choose if you want to go camping?
A. OUT. B. WBP.
C. CRF. D. POT.
2.What will the students do on Tuesday with Mrs. Wilson?
A. Travel to London.
B. See a parade and fireworks.
C. Tour central Paris.
D. Visit the WWI battlefields.
3.How long does Potty about Potter last?
A. Two days. B. Four days.
C. Five days. D. One week.
It’s been five years since I came to America. The year before I arrived, every weekend I was woken up by “Spring River in the Flower Moon Night”, _______ by my mother on a zheng.
My mom was always enchanted(着迷) by the beauty of Chinese traditional music, _______she never had the chance to learn a _______. In 2009, she got a zheng from a friend and has been playing and performing ever since. Sometimes when I _______ her, I search for the songs she used to play on the Internet. I _______ expected to hear them here in Boston.
Earlier this year, as I _______a new apartment, I met Zhantao Lin, the director of the Boston Chinese Musicians Association. At Lin’s house, I heard the _______ of the erhu. Lin later _______ me to his music team and I heard then rehearse(排练) for a _______ this year. It was beautiful and powerful——it ________brought me back to my hometown in China.
________is also part of Lin’s daily routine. Besides performing, he passed on his love of the erhu to his ________. I went to one of Lin’s classes and met 9-year-old London Turk. I asked him ________he chose to learn the erhu. “It’s much ________to learn than the violin,” he said. Perhaps Turk hasn’t really started to ________the beauty of the erhu, but his mother has always loved the instrument. “There are so many beautiful things in Chinese ________: the music, the language, and the art. So we just try our best to let him have a ________ to explore it,” she said.
I ________ my mom for giving me a chance to immerse(使沉浸) myself in the Chinese musical world. The music makes me feel relaxed. It can also________me of my homesickness. If you listen to one piece, you will ________ its uniqueness, power, and beauty.
1.A. directed B. played C. written D. invented
2.A. but B. and C. or D. so
3.A. instrument B. trade C. language D. trick
4.A. mention B. chase C. miss D. call
5.A. only B. still C. already D. never
6.A. looked after B. looked at C. looked for D. looked up
7.A. story B. sound C. name D. cry
8.A. followed B. recommended C. guided D. introduced
9.A. performance B. competition C. game D. conference
10.A. secretly B. recently C. nearly D. suddenly
11.A. Reading B. Teaching C. Composing D. Exercising
12.A. workmates B. friends C. students D. parents
13.A. how B. where C. why D. when
14.A. easier B. longer C. safer D. smarter
15.A. consider B. appreciate C. ignore D. expect
16.A. medicine B. economy C. literature D. culture
17.A. chance B. place C. duty D. desire
18.A. forgive B. blame C. thank D. beg
19.A. remind B. cure C. inform D. warn
20.A. explain B. ensure C. express D. experience
As your spoken English gets better, so ______ your written English.
A. does B. is
C. has D. will
Whom would you rather the car?
A. have fix B. have fixed
C. have to fix D. have fixing
The shop is reported to ________________ last night in the local newspaper.
A. break into B. be broken into
C. have broken into D. have been broken into
As the library rule goes, you should put the dictionary_________ you can find it easily.
A. where B. in the place
C. the place in which D. at where
